This book Policy Initiatives in Employment Challenges, compiled with many articles contributed by scholars and mostly have focused on the role of MUDRA, MGNREGA and skill training. This book elaborately narrates how these programmes are implemented to meet the challenges of unemployment prevailing both in formal and informal sectors of the country. Almost all themes examines how far unemployed has disturbed the ‘growth–employment balance’ in Indian economy and what policy-makers have done to make a balance between growth and employment through various initiatives. This book will behoof the learners and research scholars.